Any suggestions? its my first time trying to breed. is there a specific age the fish start breeding? because i can see one of the females is smaller of the two

So far i've fed hikari micro pellets which theyve seem to ignore, they sank down to the bottom of the tank by the sponge filter and i thought they were eggs until i remembered i'd fed them the micro pellets .
today i put in cyclops, one of the fish would suck it in, seem to chew and then spit it out, others didnt really see the food. sigh. i hope they do start breeding though!

I breed CPD as well, but I've never had any luck moving the parents back and forth. I have a 20g long with about 12 adults, a thin gravel substrate some driftwood and a big ball of java moss. I also have a bare bottom 5.5 gallon with a sponge filter and another big ball of java moss. The only way I've gotten fry so far is by swapping the moss between tanks, and waiting about 3-5 days before fry appear.

I feed my adults Micro, Walter and Bannana worms and they like all 3, I'll also occasionally give them frozen blood worms. There main diet is golden orbs which they seem to really like. I tried the micro pellets but I thought they were to big for CPD.

I breed CPD as well, but I've never had any luck moving the parents back and forth. I have a 20g long with about 12 adults, a thin gravel substrate some driftwood and a big ball of java moss. I also have a bare bottom 5.5 gallon with a sponge filter and another big ball of java moss. The only way I've gotten fry so far is by swapping the moss between tanks, and waiting about 3-5 days before fry appear.

I feed my adults Micro, Walter and Bannana worms and they like all 3, I'll also occasionally give them frozen blood worms. There main diet is golden orbs which they seem to really like. I tried the micro pellets but I thought they were to big for CPD.

Anyways, let me not if you got any fry and how you did it!

I'm actually going to be moving the fish out of the tank today so ill see if they spawned or not if any fry appear.
Problem is my fish barely eat the food I feed! I want to try banna worms but the cultures on aquabid are expensive,well nit expensive but you know what I mean , where did you get yours and if you don't mind me asking how much did you pay?
I'm hoping if they did breed that they didn't eat any fry because they just don't really eat any food I give them.
But I will order the golden pearls food to see if I have any luck.

The golden pearls I use 5-50 micron for adults and the 200-300 for fry

You got this backwards, the 5-50 micron is the smaller of the 2, appropriate for fry and 200-300 micron is the size for adults. Not really the point of the thread, but dont want the OP to get confused and order the wrong size.

When i had CPD, i didnt find them difficult to feed at all, but maybe i was just already feeding stuff they liked (which really seemed to be anything they could fit in their mouths for the most part) But the things i would highly recommend would be golden pearls, decapped brineshrimp eggs, arctic copepods, and crushed up high quality flake foods. Something else i found they really liked was frozen mosquito larvae, but those dont seem to be too easy to find.

All that would be for adult fish, but treated right, some of that would probably work for bigger fry too...

I initially had success moving my moss between tanks, but lately it's been really hit or miss, I'm thinking this might be what I try next:

I have my adults (12) in a 20g long tank with a big clump of java moss, instead of moving the moss or parents I'm going to put up a foam divider wall and put moss on the buttom of each side, then I'll just pull the divider out and move the parents from side to side, no moving the moss or the parents between tanks then.

i wonder if anyone has ever been able to raise a spawn with the parents in the same tank if its heavily planted. or if the CPDs are that ferocious in their eating of eggs and fry.

I once tried it with 1m and 1f in a 5.5gal tank filled with java moss, I boiled a IAL for about 2h until the water was reduced to 1 cup. Let it cool down, pour it in the tank. I fed microworms right away, they went crazy. Turned off the lights for 3 days, first day lights back on I couldn't see a fry, but the next day I could see 7-8 swimming. Started feeding microworms right away.

After all, I still have 1 fry that survived with the parents. When the fry is about 10 days old, it seems like the parents don't bother eating them anymore.

I personally believe that moving the parents into a different tank especially a smaller one freaks them out and the typical week they are left in there is not long enough for them to resettle and spawn.

It's also a massive pain to try and catch the parents out of a tank full of moss.

I personally believe that moving the parents into a different tank especially a smaller one freaks them out and the typical week they are left in there is not long enough for them to resettle and spawn.

It's also a massive pain to try and catch the parents out of a tank full of moss.

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